When you’ve binge-watched your way through every season of The Great British Baking Show, take a look at your bookshelf and you might just see the inspiration for TV’s next big series. In the age of peak TV, more and more books are coming to the small screen—and we can’t get enough. Here are some of the page-turners we’ll be watching in 2019, plus a few returning champions we can’t wait to compare to their written origins.

Little Fires Everywhere

We don’t have many details yet, but we’ll have leading ladies (and producers!) Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington to thank when Celeste Ng‘s breathtaking portrait of not-so-idyllic life in Shaker Heights hits Hulu in 2019. The exact release date remains to be seen, so there’s plenty of time to reread the book!

Good Omens

Sci-fi gods Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett penned Good Omenstogether in 1990 and, Gaiman says cheekily, “failed to get a movie made almost immediately”—and for the next several decades. After Pratchett’s death in 2015, Gaiman knew he had to take the leap—so we’ll see David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Jon Hamm and other big names bring the story alive on Amazon Prime next year. (Take a first look at Tennant and Sheen delightfully in character here.)

The Winds of Winter

We know, we know—the HBO version of Game of Thrones doesn’t exactly follow George R.R. Martin‘s existing A Song of Ice and Firebooks, and perhaps he’ll never turn in that final manuscript. But until Martin delivers the goods on the yet-unpublished Winds of Winter, we’ll have to treat the eighth and final season of GoT (based on rough outlines of Martin’s master plan, as were seasons six and seven) as the real deal when it airs in April 2019.

(Hilary Bronwyn/HBO)

Big Little Lies

We may have left Big Little Lies‘ book territory far behind with that earth-shattering season one finale, but we can’t wait to see where the story goes next. Author Liane Moriarty wrote the story for HBO’s season two, so you know it’ll be good—especially with the return of Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Shailene Woodley (plus the addition of Meryl Streep!).

(Eduardo Cataldo/HBO)

My Brilliant Friend

OK, technically My Brilliant Friendseason one just came out, but we’re already crossing our fingers and toes that HBO will grant us a season two in 2019. Elena Ferrante certainly provided enough source material, with four installments of her Neapolitan novels sweeping the loves and losses of Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo’s entire lifetimes.

The Rook

Gather your best fake mustaches and prepare to go undercover with Emma Greenwell(Shameless), Joely Richardson (Red Sparrow) and Olivia Munn (Ocean’s 8), the stars of Starz’s upcoming take on Daniel O’Malley‘s 2012 spy thriller, set to air in 2019.

Catch-22

Christopher Abbott (of Girls and The Sinner fame) will be joined by none other than George Clooney in the upcoming Hulu adaptation of Joseph Heller‘s classic satire Catch-22. (As if we needed another reason to swoon over Clooney, he gave away the starring role in this series after he realized it was spreading him too thin. But don’t worry, he’s still writing, executive producing and directing multiple episodes along with his smaller role.)

Watchmen

A decade after DC Comics’ graphic novel Watchmenhit movie theaters as a live-action film (facing heavily mixed reviews), showrunner Damon Lindelof—the guy behind The Leftovers and Lost—will give the story new life at HBO.

(Freeform/Allyson Riggs)

The Perfectionists

Pretty Little Liarswill rise again in a new Freeform spin-off series, The Perfectionists, featuring OG PLL fan favorites Sasha Pieterse as Alison and Janel Parrish as Mona and an expanded universe based on another popular book series by author Sara Shepard.

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